Shojo: Anime For Girls
One of the biggest successes on television and DVD over the last few years has been the rise of anime, or Japanese animation. From the genre-defining classic Akira to the latest Sailor Moon tales, this form of television originated from comic books, yet has found its latest and arguably biggest success on the small screen in the West. Yet despite a penchance for robot gunsuits and psychotic megalomaniacs giving off the idea that anime is a decidedly male genre, there are a host of more female-friendly anime that proves otherwise.
With a younger and female-oriented demographic in mind, shojo (or shojou as it’s occasionally called) anime is finding a large audience for whom romance and love stand head and shoulders above robotic destruction. Such is the popularity of this newer anime that the DVD’s can make a perfect gift for those female relatives or friends of yours that wouldn’t normally spare anime a single minute of their time. Some of the most popular are:
Fruits Basket
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